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Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN KUDER, of. Rochester, in the county ofMonroe, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful article ofmanufacture which I call a Lifting Stick for Laundry Boilers;"

and I do hereby declare that'v the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,making part of this specication, in which the figure is an elevation ofmy invention.

Very great inconvenience is experienced in wash-rooms or laundries inthe process of removing the clothes from the boilers, and in manyinstances very serious accidents occur by the clothes slipping from theclothessticldy or poker ordinarily used for handling them, and splashingthe hot water upon the person operating it, itc. ylfhe object of thisinvention is to provide a simple, cheap, and elcient substitute for suchsticks, and its nature consists in the employment of a turned stick ofsuitable length and size, and having a sort of crescentshaped point atone end and a guard at au intermediate point between the ends to preventthe hot Watey.` from following down the stick to the hand of theoperator, when the clothes end might happen to be raised above theother.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will describe itsconstruction .and operation.

I propose to turn the sticks S of different lengths and sizes, and fromany desired variety of wood. They are turned with a suitable handle, h,at'one end, and a projecting rim, r, a few inches from the other end. Atthis end is made a projecting point, z', on two sides of the stick.These points are formed by cutting away two opposite sides of a sort ofsaucer-shaped ange, turned on that end of the stick.

When the clothes are to be taken from the boiler the barbed end of thestick is inserted into them, and a. partial turn given to it, whichcauses the clothes to adhere to it. Then they may be held up to drain,or entirely wound upon the stick, if desired, and removed from theboiler. When the stick is to be used for poking the clothes down, theend It should be inserted, because that end would readily free itselffrom the clothes when it was withdrawn.

A laundry stick might be formed of tinned wire, having a tin guard-platesoldered on, but I prefer wood, both as to economy and eiiciency. i

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

As a new article of manufacture, the laundry or clothes-stick S,constructed substantially as herein shown and described, with the ringor rim 7', and hooks or points t', for the purposes set forth.

CHRISTIAN KUDER. Witnesses:

Wn. S. Louennonouen, l. T. TURNER.

